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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!News1.Ottawa.iSTAR.net!news.istar.net!gateway.qnx.com!not-for-mail From: kirk@qnx.com (Kirk Russell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: where do i get pax? Date: 8 Jul 1997 17:59:56 -0400 Organization: QNX Software Systems Ltd. Lines: 33 Message-ID: <5pud8s$2th@qnx.com> References: <5ntc28$6sa$1@bigdog.eli.net> <5o0ec2$cv0@skate.demon.co.uk> <867818574.496721@kaukau.mcs.vuw.ac.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: gateway.qnx.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3664 Duncan McEwan (duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz) wrote: > Phil Humphreys (ph@imall.com) asked: > > > > I'd like to get the source for the pax utility so I can compile it > > on my linux box. Can someone give me a hand finding it? > > > To which Ian Hibbert (plunky@skate.demon.co.uk) replied: > > > > archie knows.. > > > True -- an archie search for pax gives loads of references to "pax-2.1.tar.gz", > mostly from mirrors of linux archives, so Phil should have found it OK. > However this pax seems to not be POSIX compliant (for eg, the meaning > of the '-p' and '-d' flags at least, are different). > Now, I'd like to get POSIX compliant pax sources so I can replace the pax on > Solaris, since it seems to be slightly broken wrt symbolic links. > Unfortunately, archie only finds me pax-2.1.tar.gz, or ones from various > {Net,Free,Open}BSD source trees. The *BSD sources look a little hard to port > to Solaris (amongst other things, they need the fts routines, and the dirent > structure is different). > So does anyone know of *POSIX compliant* sources for pax that will be portable > to non-BSD machines. No. But you can try the "original pax" source code posted to comp.sources.unix volume17. > Thanks in advance... > Duncan